Mit dem Dashboard Deutschland hat das Statistische Bundesamt im Dezember 2020 sein Repertoire an Veröffentlichungsformaten um ein innovatives Datenportal ausgeweitet. Insbesondere politischen Entscheidungsträgerinnen und -trägern soll es eine faktenbasierte Einschätzung der aktuellen...

Background: Neuromuscular blockade and pneumoperitoneum (PP) are important factors to ensure successful laparoscopic surgery. However, residual neuromuscular blockade (rNMB) and PP are associated with many unfavorable complications. The aim of this study is to compare the cost-effectiveness of...

Background: Treatment of chronic illness accounts for over 90% of Medicare spending. Chronic lymphedema places 3-10 million Americans at risk for recurrent cellulitis. Without convincing predictions of the costs and benefits of lymphedema treatment, insurers are reluctant to fully cover...

Background: The German hospital-to-home discharge management of geriatric patients has long been criticized. The implementation of the American Transitional Care Model (TCM) could help to reduce readmissions and costs. The objective of this review was to check the scientific evidence of the...

Die deutsche Fläche an Kurzumtriebsplantagen (KUP) ist in den letzten drei Jahren überproportional stark angestiegen, und für 2011 geht die FNR von über 4.000 ha kommerziell genutzten Plantagen aus. Die größten KUP-Flächen befinden sich in Brandenburg (~ 1.600 ha), Niedersachsen (~ 700...

Temporary Agency Work, Interim Management and Consulting are three versions of the flexible assignment of personnel between enterprises, which are - with regard to their basic economic structure - more or less similar, but which are organised under thoroughly different contractual and legal...

The general purpose of this article is the analysis of the organic agriculture sector in the Republic of Moldova, determining the place of this sector in the national economy, as well as highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of this sector. In the process of developing this article, such...

The paper presents the results of research related to raspberries production in the Republic of Serbia with a focus on the Zlatibor district and selected agricultural holding located in the area of the municipality of Arilje. The research was conducted in accordance with the real data from...

With the "more economic approach" the EU is taking a new tack on merger control policy. This is visible not only in the new SIEC prohibition criterion and the criteria for appraising horizontal mergers but also in more recent decision-making practice. Greater legal certainty, on the one hand,...

Fossil fuels are exhaustible and their consumption causes environmental problems. As a result, renewable energy resources, specifically solar energy, should be utilized more to overcome the aforementioned issues. The biggest problem with renewable energy utilization is that their capital cost is...